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Friday, 10 June 2016

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Allez les Blogs! Oder: Beagle 2, eine äußerst britische Raummission 

Mente et Malleo [23:43:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
Ja, ich weiß. Großbritannien ist nicht gleich England. Um den Punkt gleich zu klären: England ist halt England, Großbritannien ist Schottland, England und Wales;  Vereinigtes Königreich ist Nordirland, Schottland, England und Wales. Die Isle of …

Spongophyllum sp. coral from the Martin formation of Arizona 

Views of the Mahantango [20:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (721 visits) info
category→recreation
 Devonian; GB,US
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I found a few specimens of a colonial rugose coral with some really deep corallites in the Martin formation north of Payson, AZ. At first I thought they might be Hexagonaria sp. but the cup depth is much greater than that genera. So, after researching a bit more, I think I have Spongophyllum sp. specimens. Here is the description for the genera that Ermin C. Stumm wrote in his paper "Upper Devonian Compound Tetracorals from the Martin Limestone", Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 22, No. [...]

The Carbon Vault 

State of the Planet [20:41:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (214 visits) info
category→recreation
  The skin of the Earth is the color of tar, Ridged, freshly healed like the seams of a scar. Through salt-spattered sky, a gray-winged gull sails; Steam gently rises, the island exhales.   A power [...]

Schweden: Im Land der Polarlichter und der Hochatmosphärenforschung 

Mente et Malleo [18:56:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (110 visits) info
Zum EM-Start habe ich die Ehre einen der ersten Artikel der Reihe „Allez Lez Blogs“ zu schreiben. In diesem Sinne: Anstoß für Schweden! Am 1.11.2015 landete eine Hand voll Physikstudenten und Studenten [...]

Top brains to set up in Oshawa, right by all the truckyards and factories 

Ontario-geofish [17:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 CA
Reference Can they do it?  I hope they don't set up in a horrible hole like my old company did.  Gone is the day you can attract top people to horrible places.  There must be a nice place in Oshawa. I [...]

A Very Good Day 

EXPEDITION LIVE! [15:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (669 visits) info
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With time on our prospecting trip running out, we hit the hills early yesterday.  The ridge we hiked down had some great exposure and the area turned out to be littered with fossil bone.  Around every corner [...]

Chapter 19 Armageddon revisited 

Stepping Stones: The Making of Our Home World [14:38:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (113 visits) info
Sections An extinction timetable The K-Pg boundary event Almost Armageddon – the end-Permian event Whatever the scale, no matter the fineness of time divisions that we examine, the geological record throws [...]

Wie die T-Zelle eine Fehlzündung verhindert 

Mente et Malleo [14:17:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
T-Zellen gehören zu den weißen Blutkörperchen und sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil der erworbenen Immunabwehr. Außerdem sind sie, oder genauer gesagt die T-Zell-Rezeptoren in ihrer Außenmembran, [...]

Achtung, Zeckenalarm! 

Mente et Malleo [12:49:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
Wochenlang feuchtwarmes Klima in Süddeutschland – ideale Bedingungen für Zecken in den FSME-Risikogebieten. Aus aktuellem Anlass: Informationen und wie man sich vor den gefährlichen Spinnentieren [...]

Green River Formation stromatolite – a virtual sample 

Mountain Beltway [12:25:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
category→business
 Paleogene; US
Today concludes a weeklong run of  virtual samples. For the past five days, I’ve been presenting examples of a visualization combination that leverages the advantages of the GIGAmacro system with the 3D [...]

La sottile relazione fra cicli solari, piogge (e frane e alluvioni...) in Italia 

scienzeedintorni [11:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (202 visits) info
category→recreation
 Quaternary; FR,PT,PH,CN,HK,CO,US,ZM,AU,GI,IS,IT,,BR,SE
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Il clima terrestre e le sue variazioni sono governati da una serie di fattori geologici (emissioni dai vulcani, posizione dei continenti e delle catene montuose), atmosferici (quantità di copertura [...]

Piton de la Fournaise und Kilauea 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [10:00:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info
category→business
Nachrichten von den Vulkanen Piton Fournaise und

Allez les Blogs – Albanien, einst der erste atheistische Staat der Welt 

Mente et Malleo [07:47:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
Die scilogs nutzen die Fussball-Europameisterschaft als Chance, einen Ausblick auf die faszinierende Vielfalt der europäischen Gesellschaften zu gewinnen. Ich widme mich heute der Republik Albanien: Ein Staat [...]

Oklahoma Congressman’s Idea to Privatize NWS Forecasts Gets Icy Reception among Broadcast Meteorologists. 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [03:51:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (229 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
I’m hearing a lot of talk among my fellow forecasters today about legislation (introduced by an Oklahoma congressman) that would privatize many forecast functions of the NWS. You might think that private [...]

From Earth to Enigma 

Geological Society of London blog [18:59:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (226 visits) info
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For fans of geology and art crossovers, Karen Picton is exhibiting until June 19th at The Stone Space Gallery, with a Meet the Artist day on Saturday 11th June. Continue reading

The 2016 Great Geobakeoff – the results! 

Geological Society of London blog [17:56:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (674 visits) info
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It's been a bumper year for geobaking - our highest ever number of entries! Thank you and a huge round of applause to everyone who took part. Continue reading

Exploring the Ocean Balance of C, N and P 

AGU Meetings [16:51:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
category→science_technology
In order to understand how our oceans are changing, it is necessary to take a close look at what is going on with plankton. It is not only the very base of the food chain but also provides several key [...]

Generally Useless Seismic Upgrading 

Ontario-geofish [14:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (643 visits) info
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Reference Fastening the walls to the foundation is a great idea, but only for single-story totally wood houses.  These are the cases where the foundation slip was the main cause of damage.  So, if you [...]

GeoEd: Planet Press – geoscience news for children 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:25:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (351 visits) info
category→recreation
 RS,CN,HR,NL,PT,RU,SI,ES,SE,
Inspiring children to be interested in the geosciences isn’t always an easy task. While dinosaurs, volcanoes and earthquakes are a sure hook (rightly so!), there is also much more to the Earth, ocean and [...]

Friday fold: Mesoscopic structures in the Lightning Creek Schist 

Mountain Beltway [14:14:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (739 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Mesozoic,Paleozoic; US,
There are some structural goodies here at the confluence of the Rapid River and the Salmon River in west-central Idaho. I visited these outcrops three weeks ago on a field trip after the Rocky Mountain section [...]

The dinosaur resting pose debate: some thoughts for artists 

markwitton.com blog [12:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (767 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Triassic; LV,US,PL,GB,CA,CN,MN,CH
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Three Sinornithoides youngi, one standing, one sitting, one sunbathing. But would these animals really have adopted resting poses like those of modern birds, as shown here, or would they have relaxed in [...]

Warum die globale Erwärmung mehr Extremregen bringt 

Mente et Malleo [12:12:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
Die Gewitterfront der vergangenen Tage sei kein Beweis für den Klimawandel, wurde kürzlich ein Meteorologe zitiert. Trivial wahr aber nichtssagend, und potenziell sogar irreführend – suggeriert es doch, [...]

Truthahn à la Martienne 

Mente et Malleo [11:09:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
Die Moral einer Crew hängt bekanntermaßen stark vom Essen ab. Doch auf dem Mars erfordert die Essenszubereitung gelegentlich eine gewisse Improvisationsfähigkeit. Wir haben kein Mehl mehr? Zu dumm, wir [...]

Los dinosaurios épicos de Bastien Jez 

Koprolitos [09:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 FR
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Además de ser el guitarrista de la formación de trash Heboïdophrenie, Bastien Jez es un joven ilustrador de Burdeos (Francia) con una especial predilección por la creación de personajes y escenografías [...]

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A fracture-shaped bioerosion trace from the Pliocene of Cyprus 

Wooster Geologists [06:01:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Neogene; CY
This past semester I worked with three colleagues on a massive trace fossil review paper, which we hope meets success in the next month or so. My primary job on the team was to sort out bioerosion traces, [...]

These were the PATA Days 2016 in Crestone, CO 

paleoseismicity.org [00:02:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (685 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
The 7th International INQUA Workshop on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archaeoseismology (PATA Days) took place last week in Crestone, CO. The meeting was organised by Jim McCalpin who did an amazing [...]
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